Improvement in telegraph-registers



R. HENNING.

. Telegraphic Register.

Patented April 5, 1864.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ ROBERT HENNING, OF OTTAWA, ILLINOIS,ASSIGNOR TO J. D. OATON, OF

SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN TELEGRAPH-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 42.253, dated April 5,1864.

a plan of the same with some of the upper. .parts omittted to showtheimprovement. Fig.

3 is aperspective view of the slidingpen-holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

In telegraph-registers, as most commonly constructed, the style or steelpen is so attached to the pen-lever as to be immovable laterally; and inorder to write upon the paper in as many lines as practicable the paperhas to be moved laterally, and the working-surface of the rollers has tobe of a length almost equal to twice the width of the paper. As

,one of the rollers is pressed upon the paper by means of springsbearing on each end of the roller, every time the paperis movedlaterally these springs have to be readjusted, else the pressure of theroller will be greater on one edge of the paper than on the other,causing it to run untrue in its passage between the rollers.

The main object of this improvement is to obviate the necessity ofmoving the paper laterally, and thereby obviate the above difficulty;and to this end it consists in the use of a penholder which is movablein a direction parallel with the length of the rollers, in combinationwith a plurality of grooves in the roller, against which the pinoperates instead of only one groove, as in the rollers of the registersheretofore constructed, the said grooves corresponding in number anddistance apart with the lines of writing desired to be made on thepaper; and my invention further consists in a certain mode of combiningthe movable penholder with the pen-lever, and adjusting it relatively tothe several grooves of the roller,

whereby the said pen is enabled to be brought exactly opposite to thesaid grooves, and the lines of writing on the paper are always'made atequaldistances apart, so that a greater number of lines are enabled tobe made upon the paper, and the paper thereby economized.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the frame which contains the bearings for the axles of the rollerswhich feed the paper, and for the several axles of the clocktrain, andalso the center screws which support the rock-shaft of the pen-holder.

B is the manygrooved roller, arranged in the usual position in the saidframe, and having its grooves at equal distances apart.

0 is the pen-lever, arranged and operating in the usual manner, butinstead of having the pen or stylea screwed into itin the usual manner,has the end next the roller Bformed with a flat T-shaped head, 0, forthe reception of the movable pen-holder D, into which the pen or style ais screwed and secured by a set-nut, c, in the usual manner.

The pen-holder D consists of a flat plate having a straight edge, e,which fits against a shoulder, d, on the lever O, and two lugs, e e,which lap over the straight edge I) of the T- shaped head ofthepen-lever, and when placed upon the said holder is thereby preventedfrom moving lengthwise ofthe pen-lever when placed upon the flat uppersurface of its T-shaped head 0, where it is secured by means of abinding-screw, f, and nut g, the said nut passing through a slot, h, inthe head 0, which permits the adjustment of the pen-holder in adirection parallel with the length of the grooved roller or transverseto the length of the penlever.

The edge 0 has provided in it a number of holes, 5 6, corresponding innumber and in the distance of their centers from each other with thegrooves in the roller B, the said holes being for the reception of thepoint of a sliding pin or bolt, j, which is located within the pin-leverand forced into any one of the said holes it that may be opposite to itby means of a spiral spring, 7., arranged behind it. This bolt serves byentering the proper hole 1' to hold the pen-holder with the pen or styleexactly opposite any one of the grooves of the roller B. It is drawnback, when it is desired to move the pen-holder, by means of a knob, I.

To adjust the pen or style to the different grooves of the roller thenut g of the set-screw 'f is slackened and the boltj withdrawn from 1.In combination with the many-grooved roller B, employed to support thepaper against the pen or style a, the pen=holder D, attached adjust-ablyto head 0, so as to adapt the pen a to be moved longitudinally inrespect to the roller B, substantially as and for the purposes hereindescribed.

2. The movable pen-holder D, provided with a series of holes, '5 i, andthe spring-bolt j or its equivalent, combined with the lever and themany-grooved roller, substantially as and for the purpose herein setforth.

. ROBERT HENNING.

Witnesses:

J AS. 0. WARNER, JOHN D. ELLWANGER.

